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March 2001

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March 2001

» 31.03.2001 - Black SA community takes control of its air 
» 31.03.2001 - Interview with DRC President Joseph Kabila 
» 31.03.2001 - A cultural approach to AIDS in Africa 
» 31.03.2001 - Equatoguinean govt denies rumours of "Teodorín's" arrest 

» 30.03.2001 - Seychellois focus on gender-based violence 
» 30.03.2001 - UN extends mission in Sierra Leone 
» 30.03.2001 - New protests against attacks on Namibian gays 
» 30.03.2001 - Guinean military release arrested refugees 
» 30.03.2001 - Foreign troops have pulled back in Congo 

» 29.03.2001 - Angolan rebels fail to counter army gains 
» 29.03.2001 - Newspaper copies seized by Togolese authorities 
» 29.03.2001 - Propaganda war over Sudanese oil displacements 
» 29.03.2001 - Foreign mercury waste still contaminating South Africa 
» 29.03.2001 - "UN must act on Togolese human rights abuses" 

» 28.03.2001 - Wounded soldiers arrive Namibia from DRC 
» 28.03.2001 - Flood hit Malawi asks South Africa for helicopters 
» 28.03.2001 - Zambian women demand place in decision-making  
» 28.03.2001 - Unions alarmed over rising SA unemployment 
» 28.03.2001 - Oppostion against new government in Guinea-Bissau 
» 28.03.2001 - Ivorian opposition wins municipal elections 

» 27.03.2001 - Congolese appeal for fair mediation by Bongo 
» 27.03.2001 - Malawi coup plotters charged with treason 
» 27.03.2001 - Inflation remains high in Angola 
» 27.03.2001 - Diplomats in Zimbabwe dismiss govt threats 
» 27.03.2001 - Harassment and rape hampering girls' education in SA 

» 26.03.2001 - Call for careful decentralization of power over environment 
» 26.03.2001 - Police raids Zimbabwe gay organisation's office 
» 26.03.2001 - Case of Tanzanian refugees in Kenya "unique" 
» 26.03.2001 - Shelter for battered women opened in Malawi 
» 26.03.2001 - Malawi police foil suspected coup 
» 26.03.2001 - Fears of epidemics in destroyed Burundian capital 

» 25.03.2001 - Obiang in the US: "Equatorial Guinea on track to democracy" 
» 25.03.2001 - Ivorian municipal elections of "unprecedented significance" 
» 25.03.2001 - Internet business centres spring up across the continent: Now Ghana 
» 25.03.2001 - President Kerekou re-elected in Benin 

» 24.03.2001 - Sao Tome reaches agreement on oil exploitation with Nigeria 
» 24.03.2001 - Liberia slips further into repression 

» 23.03.2001 - Namibian govt launches "economic sanctions" against  newspaper 
» 23.03.2001 - Comoros military ruler says civilians to take over next year 
» 23.03.2001 - Repatriation of Eritreans from Sudan starting 
» 23.03.2001 - Niger River bank improvements yield arable land 
» 23.03.2001 - Sudanese warlords poaching and destabilising in CAR 

» 22.03.2001 - Burundi "between hope and fear" 
» 22.03.2001 - Pires assumes presidential powers on Cape Verde 
» 22.03.2001 - Botswana stories of courage, stories of abuse 
» 22.03.2001 - Benin electoral process back on track 
» 22.03.2001 - Nujoma's "gay purges" cause international outrage 
» 22.03.2001 - UN warns against continued instability in Guinea-Bissau 

» 21.03.2001 - Lesotho minister laments detentions in SA 
» 21.03.2001 - Nigerian unions protest at oil price rises 
» 21.03.2001 - Execution of Cameroonian youths provokes demonstrations 

» 20.03.2001 - Swazi editor forced to testify against strikers 
» 20.03.2001 - Namibian president announces purges against gays 
» 20.03.2001 - Chad's ex-dictator avoids trial in Senegal 
» 20.03.2001 - Trade union repression in Djibouti reported 
» 20.03.2001 - UN wants to extend and strengthen Sierra Leone mission 

» 19.03.2001 - Is peace within reach in Congo? 
» 19.03.2001 - Malawi alliance set to better education 
» 19.03.2001 - Mining damage Congolese World Heritage sites 

» 18.03.2001 - Meningitis on return in Africa 
» 18.03.2001 - West African nations to ban EU fishing fleets
» 18.03.2001 - Call for worldwide ban of FGM 

» 17.03.2001 - Tunisian human rights defenders targets for repression 
» 17.03.2001 - "Uganda needs to re-affirm human rights commitment" 

» 16.03.2001 - Equatorial Guinea: Rumours of US arrest of president's son 
» 16.03.2001 - Comoran editor in dubious libel lawsuit 
» 16.03.2001 - Road building Monica is well-grounded 
» 16.03.2001 - Despite snags, UN confident of peace on the Horn 

» 15.03.2001 - New Zimbabwe Chief Justice to face problems 
» 15.03.2001 - Global Foot-and-Mouth Disease warning 
» 15.03.2001 - Link between oil and abuses in Sudan documented 
» 15.03.2001 - Mbeki will not declare emergency over AIDS crisis 
» 15.03.2001 - Shock resignations in Botswana Telecommunications Corporation 
» 15.03.2001 - UN deploys in RUF-held territory 

» 14.03.2001 - Africa's women face highest reproductive health risks 
» 14.03.2001 - All Ethiopian Mengistu refugees returned from Sudan 
» 14.03.2001 - Senegal wrestles with pesticide problem 
» 14.03.2001 - Museveni wins Ugandan election 

» 13.03.2001 - "Aids drug firms practice new global racism" 
» 13.03.2001 - Africa demands return of stolen wealth 
» 13.03.2001 - New Attorney-General says Mozambique's legal system is sick 

» 12.03.2001 - Root causes behind "bushmeat crisis" mostly disregarded 
» 12.03.2001 - Second round due in Benin presidential elections 
» 12.03.2001 - "SA should declare emergency on HIV/AIDS" 
» 12.03.2001 - Call to save Africa's disappearing wildlands 
» 12.03.2001 - Regional defence organ wrested from Mugabe 

» 11.03.2001 - UN agencies come to Malawi's aid on flooding 
» 11.03.2001 - Museveni believed to win Ugandan election 
» 11.03.2001 - Botswana wants tough action on rape 
» 11.03.2001 - Call for regional policy on labour migration 

» 10.03.2001 - Little contest in Rwandan elections 
» 10.03.2001 - African indigenous languages endangered 
» 10.03.2001 - Women campaigns against genital mutilation successful 

» 09.03.2001 - Turtles unite local industry and conservationists in Kenya 
» 09.03.2001 - WFP rushes food aid into flood-hit areas of Malawi 
» 09.03.2001 - US considers sanctions against Zimbabwe 
» 09.03.2001 - History repeats itself in Benin elections 

» 08.03.2001 - "Sending girls to school would end global hunger and poverty" 
» 08.03.2001 - UNIFEM Director Noeleen Heyzer addresses world's women on Women's Day 
» 08.03.2001 - Madagascar gets European aid and flood contingency 
» 08.03.2001 - Women's Day message from Mary Robinson, UN Commissioner for Human Rights 
» 08.03.2001 - Call for stopping child marriages 
» 08.03.2001 - Gender equality fastest road to growth and development 
» 08.03.2001 - Sanctions against Liberia approved 

» 07.03.2001 - 8.4 million Ethiopians at risk in meningitis outbreak 
» 07.03.2001 - Zambian maize producers face pricing crisis 
» 07.03.2001 - Pretoria drug trial postponed for new evidence 
» 07.03.2001 - EU and Zimbabwe begin 'political dialogue' over human rights 

» 06.03.2001 - Film on slave trade rekindles reparations debate  
» 06.03.2001 - Guinean refugee rescue progressing well 
» 06.03.2001 - Malawi Minister of Information courts the media 
» 06.03.2001 - Namibian gay rights dealt blow 
» 06.03.2001 - Pires wins Cape Verde poll with 17 votes 
» 06.03.2001 - Violence 'marring' Ugandan election 

» 05.03.2001 - Paper exhorts EU citizens to arrest Mugabe 
» 05.03.2001 - South African women protest medicine court case  

» 04.03.2001 - Burundi experiences week of renewed violence 
» 04.03.2001 - US urged to help avert famine in South Sudan

» 03.03.2001 - South Africa's Mbeki to talk sense to Mugabe 
» 03.03.2001 - Gays mobilise against reported Somali death sentence 
» 03.03.2001 - Beninese mobilise against election violence 
» 03.03.2001 - Cameroonian 'killer unit' police detains nine children 

» 02.03.2001 - Zimbabwean judge gives in to pressure 
» 02.03.2001 - Ebola outbreak in Uganda officially over 
» 02.03.2001 - Conservationists sceptical about watchdog for Chad-Cameroon pipeline 

» 01.03.2001 - British back on calling Sudan a 'terrorist state' 
» 01.03.2001 - Zimbabwe judiciary and government at war 
» 01.03.2001 - Guinean army killing civilians in Sierra Leone 
» 01.03.2001 - Calls for UN monitoring of Togo 

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